...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.