Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

Patriotism is not 'my country right or wrong'; patriotism means loving the ideals for which America stands and having the courage to speak up when these ideals are distorted for personal or political gain. The American government was instituted to be the servant of the people, not our master.

It's better to copulate than not.

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.