No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Respect is love in plain clothes.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.