My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

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

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.