Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.