Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

History! Read it and weep!

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

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.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.