No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His bre….

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's u….

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic..

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give ….

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit..

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father work….

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money..

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common"..

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around..

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results..

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden min….

It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Ca….

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it..

Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by N….

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together..

There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. ….

Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment..

It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, sp….

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something..

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members..

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too..