You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn. - David Zindell

Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.

The elite of the universal religions have always substituted belief in the Infinite for the experience of it. We all need God — but only in small and measured doses. Who can look upon the burning bush and not be destroyed in its flames? Who can bear the heaven and hell of each moment blazing in time? Who can shine like a star? And so, for all but a few of the manswarm, the rare ones who are truly human, it is better to glimpse such a miracle through a dark glass or to grasp it through words only.

The secret of life is more life.