I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

Evaluate and assess your life on a daily

Peace begins with a kind gesture and Namaste.

I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.

They were stuck in a moment that wouldn’t quit.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.