Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Let's fly away and live forever

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.