Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid more real more substantial and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result good or bad to what you have been committed to.

At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.

Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

Denial exists when three beliefs intersect 1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you. 3. It cannot happen to you now.

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.

There is no one area of chemical engineering that specifically helped me in my career as an astronaut, it was more the general education in engineering. Also, it was a very difficult and rigorous course. So, it made me strong and resourceful.

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

I used to comb my hair back and do stupid stuff.

Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.

On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.