I always get asked how fast I can run and the answer is 'faster. '
I will not be afraid because I understand. . . And understanding is happiness.
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.
Now I understand,” said the last man.
And because, in all the Galaxy, they had found nothing more precious than Mind, they encouraged its dawning everywhere. They became farmers in the fields of stars; they sowed, and sometimes they reaped. And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.
I am trying so very hard to stay in the moment despite the ferocity of my ambition.
He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.