The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of serious situations. And that's the way the X-1 was.
Never wait for trouble.
The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.
My views are just about the same as Casey's.
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.