Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?