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“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
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“At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.”
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“Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.”
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“Preparation is the biggest key right now.”
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“What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think?”
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“I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .”
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“The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.”
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“I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.”
Source : Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders
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“Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things appear simple when they are not, and perhaps we forget this sometimes. Better not to forget.”
Source : "Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk". www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2013. 
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“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.”
Source : Diane Chamberlain (2013). “Necessary Lies”, p.306, Macmillan
