“Falling does not cover the speed and abruptness of being thrown from less than ten feet high.”

“Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.”

“True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.”

“Such talk makes you think of radiation like water in a pool: if it’s four feet high you’re safe, if it’s eight feet high you drown. But in fact radiation levels are much more like speed limits on the highway – thirty miles per hour is safer than eighty, but not as safe as twenty, and the only way to be completely safe is not to get in the car.”

“you'll learn more from falling than from being saved from falling”

“I'll just stay ten feet away from him at all times so I don't accidentally trip and fall and land lips first on his mouth.”