The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.Tom Stoppard
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.Honoré de Balzac
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.Sigmund Freud
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.Dwight D. Eisenhower
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.Neil deGrasse Tyson