There will always be survivors.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value