Never encourage a man to cook breakfast; it cause him to wonder if women are necessary.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.