The Bahamas are gorgeous. The deep trench in the ocean floor called the Tongue of the Ocean, which comes between the islands, is the most beautiful deep indigo colour.

Spaceflight isn't just about doing experiments, it's about an extension of human culture.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

Percy threw his arms around her. They kissed, and for a moment nothing else mattered. An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn't have cared.

The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

I loved being in a band.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

If you wish to speak to Allah, then do dikhr. If you are eager to meet him, then sms while you drive

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?