A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Time Enough for Love

Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.

Always yield to temptation, It may never pass your way again. -The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win." -Time Enough for Love

God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent---it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills. -Time Enough for Love

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing---with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place. -Time Enough for Love

The meek shall inherit the earth, a 6 foot plot above them. -The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

The plural of spouse is spice. -Time Enough for Love

The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them."in Time Enough for Love

What are the facts? Again and again and again--what are the _facts_? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history," --what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts!

Anything else from Lazarus Long.