The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.