In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.