“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the skys too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?And what if the air tastes of honey? What...”

“THERE IT IS, my mother says, and what she means is that the dot weve been nearing for weeks, the one thats been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larg...”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”

“I personally think humans have got about as far as we can go. We're wrecking the planet. We're never short of good reasons to massacre each other. Wrong god. Wrong race. Wrong color. Wrong sex. I'm...”

“The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”

“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.”