Velvet put-downs: I feel so miserable without you. It’s almost like having you here. -Stephen Bishop-

The devil made me do it. -Geraldine (comedian Clerow “Flip” Wilson)-

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -Albert Einstein-

When church begins, turn off your mobile phone that God can call you. -St. Joseph Freinademetz Chapel, Divine Word University-

I don’t deal in facts, only delusions. When you work with facts everyone will try to point out where you are wrong. If you tell them up front you only work with delusions, then you can’t possibly be called wrong.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. -Albert Einstein-

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. -Arthur Conan Doyle-

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. -Ronald Reagan-

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing. -Danica McKellar-

My view is this: We teach nothing. We do not teach physics nor do we teach students. What is the same thing: No one is taught anything! Here lies the folly of this business. We try to teach somebody nothing. This is a sorry endeavour for no one can be taught a thing. What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. -Julius Sumner Miller-