Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Learning . . . is - also an end in itself.

Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.