If words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

Respect all. Fear none.

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

A toast, " she declared. "To an incredible summer kicking butt and chasing dreams.

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

I'll never be a weightlifter.

There are more people in the world who make things than there are people who think of things to make.