Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

I don't care if people think I'm a junkie or a loser.

My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song.

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.