Authority. The antithesis of science.

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

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 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.

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.

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

Life itself is the lesson.

Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them .

The weather today is an increasing trend towards denial.

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

It is wise to agree that all things are one.

We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.