“Fear connotes something that interferes with what youre doing.”

“Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.”

“To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.”

“I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.”

“The best space movie in my view is 'Apollo 13.' That's just the way it happened.”

“I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.”

“Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other...”

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary master...”

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.”

“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”