Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.