How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

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

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

A friend who offers help without asking for explanations is a treasure beyond price

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.