We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Mollie Marti

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

Victor Hugo

Imagination creates reality.

Richard Wagner

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your nature is the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

I'm a travel enthusiast.

Iggy Pop

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too.

David R. Hawkins

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult