Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
. . . [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.
Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.
The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [. . . ] I conjecture that there is no good algorithm for the traveling salesman problem. My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.