The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.

Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.