We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country’s unity.
Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It’s free.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we’re making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that’s where the Light wants us to be. It’s the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don’t try to control the situation, then we won’t end up in the place we shouldn’t be.
Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don’t see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
The word ‘Islam’ means ‘peace.’ The word ‘Muslim’ means ‘one who surrenders to God.’ But the press makes us seem like haters.
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‘I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.’ ‘Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.’ ‘They probably don’t even realize how they sound.’
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories – I don’t think those ever die. Sometimes we like to hide them in sarcasm or irony, but they are still there, and they still move us.
Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going.
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you’re going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey.
