History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

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

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.

Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.

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.