You're lucky if you reach the point where you go, "OK, I have a wonderful life. . . I fly around the world, stay in beautiful places, people are generally quite sweet to me, what's to complain about?" But I think you have to get there. . . And it's taken me the best part of 54 years to reach that point where I'm like, "I'm very lucky, I'm lucky, I'm blessed" - all of those things. I wish I could impart that to other people but I think when you're young, you just don't listen.
Recreational number theory [. . . ] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.
If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.
We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.
Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.
The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.
It was trying to make my tennis game look mildly respectable, which I found you don't even really need to practice if you have a really good editor. They can edit it and you're like, "Hey, it looks like I'm playing really well. " That was the fun part, but it was like going to summer camp.
I've said, I think since the second one [part of Twilight Saga ], that it's going to take 10 years to really settle in my brain, and I'm four years into it.
Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.
For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.
Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.
For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.
The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.
I've never been the type of guy that had a lot of friends or was part of the cool group.
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.