The superfluous is very necessary.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.