We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.