Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?

It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.

every successful hardware has a software behind

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.

My first biography written in '73 was not 'Journey To The Moon.' It was 'Return To Earth.' Because for me, that was the more difficult task - disappointment.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.