"In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it."

“The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone by in a lash. We had gone from sitting still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center to traveling at 17,500 miles an hour in that eight and a half minutes. It is still mind-boggling to me. I recall making some statement on the air-to-ground radio for the benefit of my fellow astronauts, who had also been in the program a long time, that it was well worth the wait.”

“There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.”

“Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.”

“I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.”

“The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.”

“I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.”

Source : "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 2, 1848.

“Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.”