"The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes."

“Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.”

“The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters”

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”

“The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder”

Source : "Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond". Book by Gene Kranz, 2000.

“Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body”

“Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.”

“In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.”

“You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.”

Source : "There's Always Something to Do", www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2011.