Indian government seemed as furious over fish as fishermen – but principle of sacredness of all life did not apply to us; they wanted our heads.
Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.
But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were...
I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data i...
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.
Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.
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 beca...
Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;
Jubal shrugged. Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern art...
Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.
I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individu...
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.