I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
My life is my argument.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
My life is not to be somebody else's impact you know what I mean?
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
