Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

Conquer or be conquered.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.

He's asleep in the harbor, disguised as dog shit.

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.