It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, “Where are all my friends?

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.