"Have you, with your work, made anyone glow? Erupted their sorrow? Evicted their woe? Have you been anyone's consolation through a night? Have you evoked unrehearsed emotion? Chiseled a crack in someone's encasement and watched them escape? Followed the muses wherever they led? Kept on creating when left for dead? Do not bother me with punctuation until you have earned your degree."

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

"Love is the eternal first breath."

"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.""

"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."

"Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense."

"I am, therefore I think."

"People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon."

"When we love there is no reason why."

"Popularity is not an indication of quality."

"Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation."

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

"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."

"She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating."

"The stars are not the limit."

"Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed."

"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."

"We saw Earth’s breath."

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

"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."

"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."

"'Impossible' is not a scientific term."

"We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe."

"Our heartbeats pounding tomorrow into being..."

"A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain."

"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."

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

"I love the sound of those engines."

"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."

"Love consults itself."

"Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species."

"I consider myself more exportant than important."

"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."

"God and I were nude."

"The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts."

"The success of SpaceShipOne was Justice Day for dreamers and pioneers past, present and future."

"What goes up can continue."

"Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination."

"Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival."

"Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms."

"We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I."

"I was really gobsmacked."

"Gifts have ribbons, not strings."

"Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor."

"Sex in space is more than a Big Bang."

"Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices."

"A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles."

"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."

"You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do."

"Adapt and overcome."