“Second is best because God rewards the quest.”

“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth, it will only make you miserable”

“We need systems that reward the best ideas, not the best presenters.”

“In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.”

“The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.”

“No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”

“There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.”

“The presence of God is the finest of rewards.”

“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

“The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.”