Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.