The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

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

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

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

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

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.