I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

Hey, people ... Do not complain about walking on a Monday if you stayed in folded arms on a Sunday.

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.

Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

To me makeup is a major accessory. It can change an outfit, it can make the outfit, it can be the outfit, and that's why I like to play with it.

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.

Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.

when you're so happy that you have to close your eyes when you smile so that your eyes don't jump out of your head