It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

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.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

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

The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.