His conviction is a compulsion not subject to self-preservation. - Jaroslav Kalfař

Do you feel free?"
"I feel like I've lost too much."
"Freedom can feel that way.

The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It’s why the Americans are falling behind—they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they’d rather sit and pray that the world won’t make them adapt too much.

I have visited a few astronauts, but all three either ignored me or prayed. The senseless chanting, I confess, repulsed me.