[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about.

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

There was another guy suggested. He was a tall and dark-haired and Jewy, and I said, "No, he's too close to me." It ended up being Jerry Seinfeld.

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Surpassing my achievements feels incredible; I want to replicate that again and again.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

If you want to be like me, work hard and believe in it, and if you don't believe in it, get rid of it.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.