I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.

I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Be bold in mind, in spirit and in faith.

For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.