Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

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.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.