Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.