Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.