Most ‘scientists’ are bottle washers and button sorters.
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
It’s a man’s business to be what he is, and to be it in style.
My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.
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?
I never do anything I don’t want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
Cast me into a dungeon;, burn me at the state, crown me king of kings, I can ‘pursue happiness’ as long as my brain lives – but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination – devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues – which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.
Civilians are like beans; you buy ’em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can’t buy fighting spirit.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
The more you love, the more you can love – and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it’s loaded.
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted – but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.