The first casualty in every war is truth.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

No sauce equals appetite.

It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.

If a person has no conscience, it's called being a sociopath. If a corporation has no conscience, it's called capitalism.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Little dogs bite more than big dogs but they get away with it.

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

Righteous willin, the only thing supreme swimmin'.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.