The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.