I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

When a goat likes a book the whole book is gone and the meaning has to go find an author again.

Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.

For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

When the time comes to start building deep space transports and refueling rocket tankers, it will be the commercial industry that steps up, not another government-owned, government-managed enterprise.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Punishment is not for revenge but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.