It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

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

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

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

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

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