I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

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.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.