Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Things aren't what they used to be' is the rallying cry of small minds. When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact. The world is bound to look a darker place as you slide into the grave.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.