You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.

Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.