Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

The next-most difficult thing in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.

The simple heart that freely asks in love obtains.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

Good design is forever.