Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

[Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.