Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behavior.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you're going to find her furniture the next morning. It's primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs.

I am very shy. If I am flying British Airways and the airhostess asks me two questions, and I don't understand her accent - I will go hungry for the entire flight.