When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.