Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.