If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Life is short, but the years are long.

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.