The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy’s power and camaraderie and purpose.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.