My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you don't fight it.
I'm for truth no matter who tells it. I'm for justice no matter who it's for or against.
Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring sharing person inside.
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations directly in the abstract.
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature the respect of colleagues maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.
The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.