Of all the creatures on this planet none is more dangerous than a human being.

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

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

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

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

If I don’t start having service I’m going to swap you all for a dog and shoot the dog.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.