Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

When a storm shows up, always remind yourself a rainbow is hiding behind it.

Stars are dusts from wise men.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.