"Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance."

“It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.”

“My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.”

“It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'”

“The love of God is not something vague or generic; the love of God has a name and a face: Jesus Christ.”

“I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.”

“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”

Source : "Exploring Space, Unearthing Human Emotions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 13, 2011.

“There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.”

Source : Ellin DEVIS (1797). “The Accidence; or First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies ... The third edition, with very considerable additions”, p.126

“I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichés.”