It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

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.

Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

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.