...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it..

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence..

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital..

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on..

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?.

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either..

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power..

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it..

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for.

I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due….

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does..

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survi….

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past..

So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has ta….

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quali….

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context..

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened ….

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere..

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time an….

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten.