"In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me."

“Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.”

“Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”

“In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.”

“I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.”

Source : "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". ASK OCE Interview, appel.nasa.gov. February 26, 2010.

“You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.”

“There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.”

“Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.”

“My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.”

Source : Haven Kimmel (2007). “She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana”, p.37, Simon and Schuster