In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.