It's a difficult question of relations between people.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.

My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.