If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Effective action is always unjust.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.