Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.