A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price.
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war’s desolation.
My old man says when it’s time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not.
Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
Of all the strange ‘crimes’ that human beings have legislated out of nothing, ‘blasphemy’ is the most amazing – with ‘obscenity’ and ‘indecent exposure’ fighting it out for second and third place.
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs.
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
Thinking doesn’t pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.