One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.

I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up, " she told Hazel solemnly.Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia.""Although, " Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

My wife and I just celebrated our twelfth anniversary. I'm Catholic so there's no real possibility of divorce. I'm Irish - so there is the possibility of murder.

The future is a great land.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.