Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I only do a show when there's somebody I want to talk to.

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?