Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.

May all men find grace.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

Be the alter not the alternative.

In all the huge and amazing and infinitely varied world--there is only one you.

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.

Guys don't seem to think this, but the stuff that girls talk about is more raunchy than what guys talk about in a football lockeroom.

Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.