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

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.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.