Under the stars, I tried to sleep, but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat, any time, anywhere-had deserted me.

How do you know?”“Well, I don’t, I’m making this up, but I bet I’m right.

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

He is the God of nothing, if that is all you can see. He is the God of everything, he's inside you and me.

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.