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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

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Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of love.

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I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

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Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

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Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

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Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
8 of a paragraph.

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The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

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