So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

Don't worry about what others think about you

Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.