The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

Part of growing up spiritually is learning to be grateful for all things, even our difficulties, disappointments, failures and humiliations.

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.

Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.

None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

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I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.