Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Specialization is for insects.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.