→ All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
→ What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
→ Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
One of these may be attributed to Mae West. Which one?
→ I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
→ No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
→ Laughter is by definition healthy.
→ The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
→ The player is listed as day-to-day. Aren’t we all?
→ For NASA, space is still a high priority.
→ I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Can you identify the right quote belonging to Mae West?
→ Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
→ An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
→ Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
→ I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts — all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
→ Forbidden to remember terrified to forget it was a hard line to walk.
→ Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. Not you.
→ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.