Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.