I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

I always felt an outsider.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that – of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

I read ‚The High Frontier‘ in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‚Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.‘ I’m thinking, ‚That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.‘

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.