The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

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

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.