Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

I cannot drive very well. I drive slow and very safe. I don't know cars that well.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.