Never underestimate the power of human stupidity..

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win..

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger..

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes….

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back..

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system..

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival"..

I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults..

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, an….

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man..

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo..

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room..

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in..

I never learned from a man who agreed with me..

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of….

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish..

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things..

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative..

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew….

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be..

Faith is intellectual laziness..