A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally, ' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.