“What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...”

“She didn't want to be the human race. It sounded too big a responsibility.”

“Home's what's left over when you've figured out all the places you don't want to be. Sounds stupid, doesn't it? But that's what we do. We say not there and not there and not there, until there's on...”

“There are different types of salvation." he said, diplomatically. "No." Rena shook him off. "There's only one. In the voice of God, speaking through the space between the stars.”

“Universe is nothing, but human thought.”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.”

“Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other...”

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary master...”

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.”