Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Theology is for homemakers who need to know who God is, who they are, and what this mundane life is all about.

It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.

Don't listen to your parents.

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.