Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle...

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

I’m so busy doing what I must do that I don’t have time for what I ought to do… and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!- Son, that’s universal....

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector…and miss.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or...

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based...

common sense” told them was impossible.

Well, didn’t you?

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman’s breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.