Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.