“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”
“There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.”
“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
“If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
“Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.”
“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.”
“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
“Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.”
“Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.”
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”