Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

It is better to be a star for one day than a moon for a lifetime.

Another Definition For Facebook - A place where people can share their feelings and others can like it even if it's a sad feeling or a happy one.

All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.

Never trash-talk yourself or others. Stay curious. Speak your truth.

While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.

I hated the soup and felt little for the can.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.