They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.