Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

To learn true humility, we need more than a redefinition of greatness; we need even more than Jesus' personal example of humble service. What we need is His death.

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.