This isn't a war, " said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

I expected you to look... content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn't screw up, did you? Don't all Kings make love perfectly?

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.