History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

The world is an enormous injustice.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

In the spring at the end of the day you should smell like dirt.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

Plyometrics. Hate them. Enough already. Jumping around, using your own body weight is so hard to me. How did we do it as kids?

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.

A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create miracles.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or dont do it.

By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate more complex experimental projects, dealing with the structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of natural products. As a result of the success of this research, I was appointed in 1956, at age twenty-seven, as professor of chemistry.

They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.

My younger sister and younger brother are huge 'Teen Witch' fans.

The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.