Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.”
― Hugh L. Dryden