Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.

The scarcity of time is the reason we have to concentrate on one thing at a time.

So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

I don't have a stack of scripts...

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.