The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the lord in vain- then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

You don’t pay back, you pay forward.