The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Drop dead-but first get permit

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.