Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.

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

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.

Never insult anyone by accident.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

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.