Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.