“We were, on that day, no different from the ancients, terrified of our own big sky.”

“Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. ”

“We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.”

“All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.”

“We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”

“We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.”