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.

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

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.