I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.
There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.
The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.
My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.
It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name. . . my name. . . I am. . . I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.
Your imagination can create a reality
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.
When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!