The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

No one knew how old she was, but she vaguely remembered waving to President Coolidge. She still had all of her marbles, though every one of them was a bit odd and rolled asymmetrically.

You CAN have your cake and eat it too. Just don't start choking.

Let us act on what we have since we have not what we wish.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.