Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

Religion is not the most important thing.

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

Some wounds are so deep, that if you were to reach in their depth, you wouldn't find a way back.

The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing.

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!

Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.