Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.