One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is a

"The State of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity."

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit. [Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]

I'm going to Vietnam at the request of the White House. President Johnson says a war isn't really a war without my jokes.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain."

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.