Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing baseball fishing - there is no greater example than golf because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Then I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So then I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy or young man growing up having to listen to all this it must be painful.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

A gentle word a kind look a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

I had never seen much of Star Trek or any other science fiction before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

Sure science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence not mastery.