Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

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

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

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

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.