Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

Love your life, poor as it is.

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

Real estate is one sector that India is not very proud of.

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.