It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.

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