“I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.”

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

“Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

“Night is a world lit by itself”

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

“I stopped in front of a florist's window. Behind me, the screeching and throbbing boulevard vanished. Gone, too, were the voices of newspaper vendors selling their daily poisoned flowers. Facing me...”

“Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. "Find me a silk to match that.”

“We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorr...”

“There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.”

“Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.”