It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
Exploration by real people inspires us.
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Russia gave us the mission to destroy terrorism and extinguish it in the North Caucasus, and results have already been achieved.
In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies.
We don't have to let extremists define us.
Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I don't know how to explain it. A lot of Christians actually like other Christians in Houston. A lot of Christians even like non-Christians in Houston. And, on frequent occasions, a fair amount of non-Christians like us.
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.
