I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

You need to be a person who makes things happen.

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

I was born a year after Lindbergh made his historic trip across the Atlantic. Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.

For most of the time carrier aviation is more challenging than flying in a spacecraft

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!

I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

We are the sons of no one, bastards of young.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.