It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Religion is a byproduct of fear.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.