In a culture, manners are the lubrication that ease the frictions of social contacts.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

Change no man’s religion, change no man’s politics, interrupt the sovereignty of no nation. Instead, teach Man to use what he has and what he knows to the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time.

The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.