The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.

His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.

Partners, ” she said, and fired two rounds into his head.

Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

Nothing wrong with a little optimism, long as it doesn’t set policy....

He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.

For a moment, his pupils flickered blue, like there were tiny bathypelagic fish swimming in the deep trenches of his eyeballs.

i know i can't do much, but i can do a little and i'm going to do as much of that as i can.but if we all do that--we can make a big difference.

We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization’s success a reality.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.