"We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?"

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."

"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."

"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."

"The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether."

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."

"There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree."

"...Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life!"

"It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children."

"Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts."

"Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months."

"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."