All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

A practice of giving [it] your best, means you don't just have to hope for it.

Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.

You can't move forward until you look back.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.