We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.

God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment.

Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.

The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.

After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.