When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are for….

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousand….

I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical..

Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth..

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which….

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright..

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why..

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe..

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are..

I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and ….

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind..

Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs thr….

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip..

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago..

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent expos….

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers..

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers..

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it..

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual..

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired..

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to cr….