I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not$$$ you can kill him without hate and quickly.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty$$$ intelligence$$$ goodness$$$ et cetera ad nauseam$$$ keep her from drowning them at birth.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy$$$ Plato and that sort of thing.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.