The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

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.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.