"The greatest giver of alms is cowardice."

"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."

"There are only two types of aircraft a€“ fighters and targets."

"Life is not all golf."

"The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of 'civilized warfare.'"

"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Don't take life so serious--it ain't nohows permanent."

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

"Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration."