There is no safety this side of the grave

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.