The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.