To experience the unknown, developing understanding and to care, that is our purpose.

The duty imposed on intellect by Life is not to suppress, but purify emotions.

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You're beginning to freak me out.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game.