[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.

People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

. . . 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.

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.