For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

The glory of God is upon you.Arise in great might and chase your dream.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

When you’ve practiced that so long that you forget you’re practising, you work on making it smooooooth. You won’t have to worry about the last one – you get those three, and you’ll be fast.

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.