The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Language is not innocent. It carries the weight of history and power.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。