Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.