Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew

There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.