To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

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.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.