It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will.

I think we need to take time out in our lives to realign ourselves with country, to realign ourselves with what we have and the beauty of what we have. I think we've all just got caught up in this way of life that doesn't allow us to be intimate with it any more.

Balance comes from the realigning of our priorities.

There's no better place to realign ourselves than at the feet of Jesus.

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.