When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

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

Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.