Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.