“Gingerly, Daniel reached toward the infant. "What if she doesn't like me?""She'll spit acid in your eye and you'll die a horrible death," Kara joked.”

“Beauty reflected in a pool may be a little blurred, but it can be as beautiful in its own way as the original.”

“Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.”

“And sometimes,' Anne said softly, 'there's just plain love, Ellie. no reason for it, no need to explain'Then she leaned back on the couch, crossed her ankle over her knee and grinned. 'Perfect love,' she said. 'And what's that like?''When you find it, lil sis. You'll know.”

“Just 'cause you wouldn't do it doesn't make it wrong.”

“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”

“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”