A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

Poker is Chess with cards but everyone starts with different pieces.

Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Creationists believe that man was instantaneously created by God based on an account in a book called "the Bible." Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies, and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successively.

Yeah the early bird catches the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious—the knowledge of the existence of something unfathomable to us