"What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters."

"I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love."

"I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts."

"I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper."

"We don't stop going to school when we graduate."

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."

"I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself."

"Of course I want to take the last shot, let's be quite frank: I've been doing for nine years already, and I've made a ton of them."

"As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air Jordan 9s."

"Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"

"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."

"If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read."

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

"I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later."

"We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there . . . he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have."

"There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly."

"Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work."

"There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education."

"The much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing."

"When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education."

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

"It keeps college kids from going into debt."

"Education can no longer be the sole property of the state."