...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.

Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.

When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.