“To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.”

“Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.”

“Actually, the most frightening power of freedom is to freely give itself up to the forces that stunt it.”

“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?”

“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”

“The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”

“We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.”