Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.
The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.