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.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.