In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.

A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists.

A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.