Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

I always knew I'd go to space.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

As an athlete you've got to watch your hydration and your nutrition, and use the right kinds of fuel to help you perform your best.

A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

I like playing with a good crowd.