My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

With God, everything will work for my good.

Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.

When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own.