The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.
. . . there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.
Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
There was this rapper from New Orleans, Mystikal, who when I hear his music, I hear myself. Whenever I wanna get hyped, I put on Mystikal.
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude. . . The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!