A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.

He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.