You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.

I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.

I believe everyone on earth has a certain goal/dream in life. I also believe anyone can achieve this if they set their minds to it.

A Marine is never intimidated.

I owe all my success to stupidity.

Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine.

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that you would never do anything.

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.

I've been a lucky guy.

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.