The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

Gratitude is the vitamin of the soul.

Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.