Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within.

About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

All da ladies love Leo!!