Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.