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.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.