Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

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

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.