"In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance."

“Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.”

“For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.”

Source : "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

“You believe that you can win the nomination of your party, and then you believe that you're the strongest candidate to win the election for your party.”

“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.”

“A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.”

Source : Sam J. Ervin Jr. (2014). “Humor of a Country Lawyer”, p.38, UNC Press Books

“I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.”

“Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.”

Source : "House Beautiful", Vol. 133, (p. 216), 1991.

“It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?”