Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Many admire, few know.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

My three children have brought me great joy.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I’m a pop singer for Christ’s sake. As a person, I’m fairly uncomplicated.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.