The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.

This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth from this vantage, and for the gift of the planet we've been given.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

When there's nothing left to save, there's nothing left to lose.

Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17

Brave, bold people, these are what we want.