That which could hunger, could starve.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

The big talent is persistence.

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.