“The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.”

I’ve made a few hits where I’ll look up at the screen and be like, ‘Oh my God.’ Like it wasn’t even me, like I just watched another guy kill this guy, and I don’t even think that was me that made that hit.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.

I want to be one of the top guys in the back end and make sure I keep our team in line and doing the right things in front of me.

I’m the type of guy who wants to make every play.

I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I’ve never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the time by other people. I was ‘Desmond’ or ‘Damon’ or ‘Demon.’ So Bob’s cool.

When another player screws up, I kind of erase it and make a good play.

Play fast, play smart, play aggressive, bring energy!

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn’t adopt chemistry as a religion.

I didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

I don’t feel that because I’m First Lady, I’m very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it….

I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don’t know everything and that they need help.