Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.