If there is such a thing as karma, let's hope that Sarah Palin comes back as a wolf being shot at from a plane.
I think I already understand about life: pretty good, some problems.
I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that *has* changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental.
No matter how tired or stressed you are, just by getting dressed and rolling your sleeves up, you can accomplish almost anything.
I've learned my feelings and thoughts are secondary to what needs to get done - that what matters is the next right action.
I want to win at everything. I usually don't like things that I'm not good at, but it doesn't mean I don't want to win at them.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.