"To conquer fear is to realize that the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance."

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."

"It is a steadfast truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions."

"A life well-lived is a testament that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire."

"Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm."