You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you.

At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.

Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically.