What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.

The truth is not so good a story.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.