I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

We live in a moment in history in which our privacy may not be important.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

We are the only instrument for understanding the universe. We have to ground it in human beings.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

Being converted to Jesus is learning to so adore God that we would gladly renounce everything we have to follow Him.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.