“After all, delusions of grandeur are the most entertaining of toys.”

“ I am not here because I've got it all together or know something you don't. I'm here because He asked, and I love to do what He asks".”

“Just because I don't know how to work a toy, doesn't mean I don't want it in my toy box.”

“...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers...”

“One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one”

“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

“It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.”