Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.

Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

Look up, now look down. Up is endless, down has an ending. Always look up.

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.