The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.