Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

There is the possibility that humankind can outgrown its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in Childhood's End. But it is amazing how childishly gullible hum…

It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.

Die glucklichsten Zeiten der Menschheit sind die leeren Blatter im Buch der Geschichte.

According to Eshin's 'Essentials of Salvation,' the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.