The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

I stumbled up the hill back toward the Hab. As I crested the rise, I saw something that made me very happy and something that made me very sad: The Hab was intact (yay!) and the MAV was gone (boo!).

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

The spectator is a dying animal.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.