Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.

He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, " said Citizen."Oh my, " said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

I hope they bury me near a strait man

I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.

A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!

Those who start later, tend to achieve greater

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.