"When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror."

"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think."

"Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be."

"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions."

"Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate..."

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

"Art is the illusion of spontaneity."

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."

"War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied."

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge"

"The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget."