I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

The power of prayer and faith can heal and bring happiness. The real tragedy is that the people that are helped by this don't realize that this power is really coming from within.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.