"Sometimes" is sometimes "not never".

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppyyour mathematics is.

The strong leader takes a chance when there is little hope, The hope that he will succeed and little chance of failure

Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back.

When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.