I was lucky enough that I visited Mumbai, my house, back for a vacation.

Every one of us had a mother, only one probably the most important person in your life, if you're lucky enough to know them.

I was lucky enough to spend my last year, my fifth year, in Rome as a student. It changed my life.

And this is of a student of mine named Joseph who I had the good fortune to work with for three years in my lab.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

They call it a Moai. And if you're in a Moai you're expected to share the bounty if you encounter luck, and if things go bad, child gets sick, parent dies, you always have somebody who has your back.

Fadil was lucky to escape with his life.

So a company, or a charity, or an organization of any kind, they typically unless you're working in Africa, if you're really lucky to do that most people have to go to an office every day.

So I was one of their failures.

And I was really lucky to go to the University of Iowa where I could study under Professor James Van Allen who built instruments for the first U.S. satellites.

I've been very lucky to work with Dr. David Ryugo where I've been working on deaf cats that are white and trying to figure out what happens when we give them cochlear implants.

I just wanted to be in one place.

I made myself with and against them.

When I was a kid, I used to think that pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

OK, that was a pity. I would have told them it was the ace of spades.

Well since then, I just thought that I've been really privileged to go to over 2,000 schools in my country village schools, government schools, municipal schools, Ivy League schools I've been invited by most of them.

If you're one of them, and of course many of you may not be, but if you are one of them, I'm asking you to stop being polite, come out and say so, and if you happen to be rich, give some thought to ways in which you might make a difference.

I was in Pakistan during one of its more exciting weeks.

So if you're lucky enough to be able to knock a small white ball into a hole several hundred yards away using a long metal stick, our society will be willing to reward you with hundreds of millions of dollars.

By focusing on a design, maybe just a single product, I was being incremental and not having much of an impact.

If you can't afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you.

I strongly opposed the international call a year ago to boycott Israel s universities.

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!

And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer that took up a whole building.

You've got to dig a hole that's usually quite a bit bigger than that to get it out you've got to climb those cliffs and find, really, everything that existed not just the dinosaurs, but the entire story. If you're lucky, and you dig a place like that, you actually find the ash bed to dig it, and we did.

According to the age old belief of Malayalees, an auspicious kani at dawn on the Vishu day is lucky for the entire year.

I was showing the film, and I remember being in Israel and getting it absolutely slaughtered by some guys having watched the film that it's just a day of peace, it doesn't mean anything.

So it meant if you attacked us, we would attack you virtually simultaneously, and the end result would be a destruction of your country and mine.

Back then it was just a year since I began blogging, and partially I didn t think I was capable enough to write in English.

You see, if you're only making one film a year, or one film every year and a half, it's hard.

He pioneered new analytical methods in many different fields, and I have been fortunate to visit some of his constructed projects more than once.

So those seem like two bifurcated problems, but I kind of started to think about, you know, what is obesity and hunger? What are both those things about?

A day earlier, I had had lunch at the Venezuelan central bank, sitting next to the deputy governor, Gastón Parra Luzardo.

My generation has been very fortunate to witness and participate in the historic transformation of China that has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years.

There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug.

Many secularists argue that ever since the Enlightenment, reason has been enough to guide governance and policymaking, buttressed by the rule of law if a community is lucky.

When I was a diplomat negotiating the disarmament treaties with the Soviet Union in Geneva in the 1970s, we succeeded because we understood we shared a destiny with them.

And visiting some pretty incredible places, places like Mongolia, Cambodia, New Guinea, South Africa, Tanzania twice I was here a month ago.

In Mexico, for example, it took 150 pesos in 1990 to buy what one peso could buy in 1980.

The first one, the electron, was discovered in 1897, and the last one, this thing called the tau neutrino, in the year 2000. Actually just I was going to say, just up the road in Chicago. I know it's a big country, America, isn't it?

This was bad! Man, I was I cough. I was sick.

But because I had to cut lawns all summer for all of our neighbors and get paid to do that, I realized that recurring revenue from one client is amazing.

And, one thing that isn't a mystery, actually, was when I grew up because when I was a little kid, I'd seen these pictures and I thought, Well, why that look on the face?

This struck me last week when I listened to one of Egypt s new online generation talking enthusiastically about the future.