"[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?"

“We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.”

“I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.”

“It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.”

“Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do it, then you are siphoning off the energy needed to actually do the work. Your words become an energy leak.”

Source : Sonia Choquette (2010). “Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want”, p.183, Crown Archetype

“Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you. ~Shade”

“A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

“We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.”

“Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.”