An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important. . . so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
It is better to copulate than never.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, (cont. Specialization is for insects.
We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.
I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. . . Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.