Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

This is a great milestone to have accomplished, but it's just one of many milestones before we can open the champagne. Once we are in the prime science orbit, the spacecraft will perform observations of the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface of Mars in unprecedented detail.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.