We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.