When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Relax, refresh and revive your soul, spirit and body.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.