Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

I was once an employee myself, so I know what employees want.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

No person ever died that had a family.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

Working for with someone who has no idea what they wanted... it would just be so all over the place, especially with something on this scale. You have to know what you want with this.

Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.