"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."

"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."

"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."

"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."

"We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment."

"Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening."

"The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative."

"I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble."