The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.