These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

There is nothing in the world that I cannot achieve when I have the courage to believe.

The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.

Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.