The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

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?

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.