The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

I've got a great collection of photography.

Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm.

I carry one black mascara and one brown.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.

Truth is a point of view about things.