Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

Might without right makes blight

Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Technology just means information technology.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

Easy short-term choices lead to difficult long-term consequences meanwhile difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.