Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Everybody has a purpose.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Where love is, there God is also.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on… So it’s a fixer-upper of a planet.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I need physics more than friends.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye. He set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still, to this day, I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.