“If half of humanity had the intellect of a dog and manage express its love, the world would sure be better.”

“For a better world, love is needed. Everyone has a heart, but only a few manage to put it to good use.”

“No one in that countryside really knew the dog existed. No one was sure. Still the dog had lived there for a year.”

“Humanity was so flawed. Not just her, but everyone. Half the population was below average intelligence. Half below average dedication. Average adherence to duty. The cruel law of statistics. It was astounding that as a race they’d managed as much as they had.”

“The pride of the intellect: The intellect is the most incredible human capacity. It is the highest of all human capacities, actually. However, it is also the thing that can go most terribly wrong, because the intellect can become arrogant about its own existence and its accomplishments, and it can fall in love with its own products. That's what happens with ideologies. You become obsessed with a human-constructed dogma of which you believe is 100% right, and it eradicates the necessity of anything transcendent.”

“I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.”

“Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect.”

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”

“She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

“One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.”