You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

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.

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

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.

What makes us saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

May God grant you more grace, strength and wisdom.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.