Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.