"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."

"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet."

"Do not wait for favorable winds; take the oars and row toward your horizon. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away."

"Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests."

"Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen."