Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able to boast of a clean body, has burdened itself with sadness, envy, and impurity.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

When NBC told me I got the job, I asked, 'Can we do it from New York?' There was just silence on the phone

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.