Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth

Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What was 'Apollo' really about?

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

I didn't have to say a word. My love for him appeared upon my flesh like virgin tattooed skin.

Know will of God and keep to His ways.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.