A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.
Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.
There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.
I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
