I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.