Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way. ' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.
Nothing wrong with wanting to go home.
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no pain. A day when the ones with abundance do not look down at the poor and the needy, a day when we learn to care for the victims, the fallen souls of civilization and advancement, a day when the world will be pure. When all of humanity becomes a clean sheet of parchment, without knowledge and prejudice, simple, hungry for knowing, tasting, and feeling; hungry for life and ready to absorb the ink of experience.
Energy begets energy.
Never forget who you are, little star.