Some are more equal than others.

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.