I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion just waiting to happen.
"I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals."
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.