After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy, they look at you and say, you've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy, things like that.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.