"I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program."

“We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”

Source : Jane Austen (1867). “Emma: A Novel”, p.160

“One does not make revolutions by halves.”

“There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.”

“Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2013). “The Ashford Affair”, p.249, Macmillan

“Theres a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of exertion while running, you couldnt do that. Blinking when youre shooting a gun, you know. Things that you take for granted every day that had to be eliminated, so it was always interesting.”

“At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.”

“I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.”