What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!