Hope

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

"I have a dream"

"Beauty will save the world"

"For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."

"I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself."

"The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops."

"I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars."

"Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that’s life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever."

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love."

"The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well."

"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that – I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much – so very much to learn."

"If you have a 2 or 3-year-old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3-year-old is to do nothing."

"I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there—that is living."

"Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith."

"How dreadfully has it tormented me (and torments me even now) this longing for faith, which is all the stronger for the proofs I have against it. And yet God gives me sometimes moments of perfect peace; in such moments I love and believe that I am loved; in such moments I have formulated my creed, wherein all is clear and holy to me."

"There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant. Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?"

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."