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

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.

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.

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

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

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

I have no problem with god - it's his fan club that scares me.

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

When my hair was shorter, I used to get it done every couple of days... but I got tired of that.

Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

The starry cope Of heaven.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

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