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

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

The marks won't listen if it's free.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.