Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!