Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

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

Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

All men are created unequal.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

Another ingredient in a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first!