Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.