If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.