Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature.

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.