We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining.

Eliminate the impossible. Then if nothing remains, some part of the 'impossible' was possible.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings.

You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.