"Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you."

"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."

"Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process."

"There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others."

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr."

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

"For men are not equal: thus speaks justice."

"Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few."

"The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time but it ain't goin' away."

"Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable."