I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.
It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.
What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.
resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
The world is my representation
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.