The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.