It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

Our regrets want to bring back many things we leave behind

And if love is life, live it.for God is love.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.