Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

He's an honest politician--he stays bought.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.