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.

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.

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.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

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.

Leadership. Where the greatest also has a mentor.

This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.

The past is the past. As long as it's not a mass-murderer past! You're with the person who you're with as they are now.

There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.

I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

I think there are no meaningful images. Meanings are created outside of the image.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)