The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.