The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.

We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church...The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.

I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.