If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'