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

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

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?

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

A child learns to be guilty when he is punished and scolded for damaging material objects

Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!

A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.