If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.