Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.