The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.