"I believe that if you do what you love, things tend to fall in place."

“Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.”

“On a serious note, we don't think we're trying to be so different, it's just that everyone else is trying to be same.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”

Source : "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.

“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”

“Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.”

“I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.”

“I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.”