Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.