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.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

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

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.

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.

No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

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.