The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.