"The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star."

“When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.”

“People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.”

“Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.”

“Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.”

Source : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.205, Penguin

“And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.”

Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2012). “Shaded Vision: An Otherworld Novel”, p.171, Penguin

“I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If I've made up my mind to do something, I can't be persuaded out of it”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Violence is the only way to answer violence.”

“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”