I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

The fire of revival supernaturally destroys all the destructive tendencies in the country

God is all about passion for the possible.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

When weak or injured always continue training as you should always be able to adapt in any condition.

Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.