My father felt that children should make their own way.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.......

Use the fear

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

There is no path to peace; peace is the path.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.