Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid more real more substantial and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result good or bad to what you have been committed to.

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.

I like Louboutins, but some women think they can just put on Louboutins and they're stylish, and that's not the case. Someone can go into T.J. Maxx or Ross, pick out some clothes and own it. As long as you have that eye for creativity and know how to put it together, it's so much more interesting.

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?

Pride without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

I love to go to the airports and just put on, like, dark glasses, so nobody can tell I'm staring at them, and just draw people.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

If one door is closed, break a window anyway.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.

Progress is a choice.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.