“Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.”

“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what youre up to.”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”

“People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.”

“Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.”

“Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”

“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”