"The really exciting focus here [is] the event and others like it that encourage, support and celebrate the enterprising innovation of pioneers working to give humanity wings."

"What goes up can continue."

"Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion."

"On Earth it was day in some places, night in others."

"As our faces and bodies drew nearer, gravity was not helping us at all. It took minor struggle to come together, and we had to hold on in an effort to keep our lips aligned."

"I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality."

"Love consults itself."

"I think the concept of the 2suit is perfect. But I also think just the philosophy of thinking, thinking beyond normal into creating a suit for two people is wonderful."

"When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome."

"You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are."

"We saw Earth’s breath."

"What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity."

"She plays like a child and creates like a genius."

"Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus onto conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation."

"The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility."

"Everybody's got soul. It's a matter of what condition it's in."

"Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold."

"I was inexpressibly struck, overtaken by chills, the likes of which I have not felt since the time I studied Sylvia Plath. Vanna Bonta is an important discovery."

"Popularity is not an indication of quality."

"Ready to test that law [physics] and go where no man and woman have gone before is Vanna Bonta."

"There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!"

"Because I had goodwill for all, / I thought all were my friends. / And then I learned of treachery, / that some preferred my end. / It wasn't the goodwill I felt / that made someone a friend. / What handy day, the one I learned / the meaning of the word. / How good to know my enemies /(though their reasons are absurd!)"

"Stella, I never knew you but here I am, in your room, a week after your death. … I thought of you, Stella, and wondered if you watched your moments, or if they all snuck by. I whispered your name into the day, carried on for you in reverence, and I felt you rest and continue the smile."

"The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information."

"In her heart she harbors hatred for me, but it would ruin the game if we didn't have tea. The words slither out laced with venom so vile it would pucker my face but she says it and smiles."

"Some things can never be explained. Like the summer Jim died and they called his name the next year in class and he didn't answer."

"Love is the eternal first breath."

"Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'"

"Viewers of television, for instance, aren't aware of their own physical vulnerabilities. They get used, manipulated by images of depersonalized sex."

"Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there."

"Harmony, rhythm, concision, concinnity are all elements that are epitomized in poetry. Cultivated in poetry, which is the nucleus of the creative impulse, these elemetns serve every art form: acting a character, writing a novel, creating music, dance, sculpture, painting.""

"She totally enchanted us. Her presence was kind and is still greatly missed."

"The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul … the soul … There is no bandage -- even crying is in vain."

"Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course."

"Which came first — the observer or the particle?"

"Vanna's 2Suit is just one small step toward humankind colonizing the universe."

"Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn."