It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.