I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Some people gave up on their wishes and dreams because they’d been disappointed too many times in life and just didn’t have the courage to keep hoping things would change

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

The goal of effective communication should be for listeners to say, 'Me, too!' versus 'So what?'

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me.

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.