My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.

If you love yourself, you will be happy because you will always have your own company and attention

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

I think maybe because I moved a lot in my childhood, I'm a little bit of a gypsy by nature.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.