Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.