Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.