Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

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

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

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