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

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Anything free is worth what you pay for it.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.