“What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise”

“If you believe in the power of your own words, you don't need to quote others.”

“The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me!”

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”

“It was cold on that Monday, January 23rd, when a little boy was born, in case you haven't heard. An infant that would become the future Dr. Jim. And all the people of the world would fall in love with him.”

“Something told her to hide the feeling from Herb. That something, that damned something, was the sense of civilized dignity that is one of our most civilized attributes, the source of so many missed opportunities.”

“Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.”