"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."

"When ambition meets humility, we find that the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."

"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."

"I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too."

"The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against."

"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart."

"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."