A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.