The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.