The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

We're not mad, " he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

I might be ugly, but my cars are real pretty.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

I am deeply grateful for the life I do have. In many ways, I am very fortunate.

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.