Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

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.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.