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“I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.”
Source : "NFL and abuse: It's not just Ray Rice" By Mel Robbins, www.cnn.com. September 16, 2014. 
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“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company”
Source : "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.
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“We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.”
Source : "On Cat Videos and Human Rights" by Christina Gagnier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2010.
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“The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.”
Source : "In brief: Prince Caspian confimed as second Narnia movie", www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2006.
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“Those who like tranquility and dislike clamor tend to avoid people to seek quietude. They do not know that when one wishes there were no one around, that is egotism; and when the mind is attached to quietude, that is the root of disturbance. How can they reach the state where others and oneself are seen as one, where disturbance and quietude are both forgotten.”
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“There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.”
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“We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways.”
Source : "NASA Press Conference Regarding Findings of Astronaut Health Reviews". Ellen Ochoa's comments during NASA press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., www.spaceref.com. July 27, 2007.
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“I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.”
