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.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

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.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

It's better to copulate than not.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.