As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.