Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.