It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

It is better to copulate than never.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by sup…

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be 'damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

'I won't die, eaten alive,' he said. He put a fresh clip in his gun. 'I'll do you first if you want, or you can do it yourself.'