It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that is what I want to do when I grow up.

Don't die before your dead! Don't let anything stand in your way of God's appointed purpose for your life.

If you truly love who you are, travel through this life with conviction, spread joy to others, embrace changes as they happen, then you will find balance in your life.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

Suffering is the fire by which love is tested.

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

The best way to get even is to forget.

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.