Luck is a bonus that follows careful planning—it’s never free. - Robert A. Heinlein

“You know, Ellie, you play this game awfully well—for a girl.”
“Thank you too much.”
“No, I mean it. I suppose girls are probably as intelligent as men, but most of them don’t act like it. I think it’s because they don’t have to. If a girl is pretty, she doesn’t have to think.”

Eventually I learned that the Church is run solely for the benefit of the priesthood, not for the good of our people. But I learned it too late.

“From the ignoramuses we get for recruits I’ve reached the conclusion that this new-fangled ‘functional education’ has abolished studying in favor of developing their cute little personalities.”