In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

Reality is always so obstructive.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don't know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.