Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! - Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.