Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

If children have interests, then education happens.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.