Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow's world.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.

You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me.

Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?