If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.