The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo

There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.