I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.