I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.