It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control."For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"

There will be no enemy if we overpower them with love.

Happiness lies within the heart.

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

You can go as far as you want to go.

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this crossover.