The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . .
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.