We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar. You're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Memory is a wound that never heals, and literature is the bandage we put on it.