"For me, life is an opportunity to serve Him, and death is the privilege of getting to be with Him."

“Through the good times and bad, the quality of your relationships will ultimately determine the quality of your life. So be grateful for your loved ones and focus on adding as much value to their lives as you possibly can.”

“Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.”

“The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.”

Source : "The Reality Dysfunction". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, October 8, 2008.

“Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth,”

Source : "Here's Why Investor Steve Jurvetson Saved Elon Musk's Space Dreams". Interview with Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. September 14, 2012.

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.” He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.”

“The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.”

“Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”