Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him. "Um. Define okay." (Ben) "Okay means you're not bleeding to death." "I'm okay.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

I believe that on any trip to heaven, there are always detours through hell.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

I'm varying my workouts so it's not just cardio but also includes moves to maintain my flexibility.

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.