It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

Religion is not the most important thing.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most I shot.

I'm a motivational speaker.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.