At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I have to be seen to be believed.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

I went from a D all the way to an A plus, I tell you prayer changes things.

I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here.