Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.