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?

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.