When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

I am not an African. I am an American.

A Data Scientists strength lies solely in their tenacity.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.