Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.