We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.
I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!
I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.
Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices.
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
I just felt that 'Golden Balls' was the right thing to do. I didn't care if people thought I was a failure.
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
