A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

There are no victims, only volunteers.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.