No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.