It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
When you’re rich, you don’t have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
Spacemen die if they stay in one place.
Spacemen – men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such – are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.
If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.
A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.
If a country can’t save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!
When the need arises – and it does – you must be able to shoot your own dog.
Between being ‘right’ and being kind, I know which way I vote.
Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
Working because you want to is the best sort of play.
Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.
A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved.
Why don’t they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don’t they- is almost always, Money.
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.