Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again.

It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

I hope you get a message of love and to continue the love and continue the spirit that I'm trying to transmit to you in a righteous sense to be in one unity. Rastafari!

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

I think I might get laid more...by my dad.