“The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to ...”

“It was a tragic end to a heroic life.”

“Helping each other out, that's America.”

“I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the quali...”

“I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?”

“I've lived the literal meaning of the "land of the free" and "hone of the brave." It's not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“Courage in danger is half the battle.”

“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”

“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”

“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”