Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

Abundance comes from within it comes from thought , intention, attention and expectation

I just think we've had years and years of allowing our jobs to be dissipated in America, and there's no reason for it.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

One often has need of one inferior to himself.

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.