The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.