What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

I always knew I'd go to space.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam"...

What are the distinctive characteristics, or marks, of personality? Knowledge, feeling or emotion, and will. Any entity that thinks and feels and wills is a person.

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.

What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.