Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for.