Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.

All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.