But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.

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