“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”

“Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.”

“The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.”

“When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.”

“Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may be just anything at all. And maybe man deep down suspects this, really knows this, kind of dreams that it is true; but at the same time he does not want really to know it? May not human life on this earth be a kind of frozen fear of man at what he could possibly be? And every move he makes might not these moves be just to hide this awful fact? To twist it into something which he feels would make him rest and breathe a little easier? What man is is perhaps too much to be borne by man...”

“God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.”

“I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].”