"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."