The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear.

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today.

No air, no balloons!

Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.