The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.
In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.
Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.
People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist. ' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.
The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.