Every important machine's got to have a big red button.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

Why would science ever recognize God that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him].

What is the most important thing in your life?For me, it is my freedom of mind, my freedom to choose my own ways of self-construction or self-destruction.

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

Sometimes I don't like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I'm healthy now.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

Stick with your passion, and keep moving forward. You can't go wrong.

Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.