If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination, ignite in the brilliance of our minds, and are wrought in the work of our hands" -

Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

Theirs was a tug-of-war and neither could let go. Both felt the burn and still wouldn't let go. Some might call it a game for neither could admit defeat.

Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

It’s a great feeling to be wanted but it’s more exciting to be inaccessible.