"Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes."

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."

"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."

"When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress."

"He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed."

"The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you."

"You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."