Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930):

1. Do not lie to yourself.
2. Do not lie to other people unless they are exercising tyranny.
3. When you think it is your duty to inflict pain, scrutinize your reasons closely.
4. When you desire power, examine yourself closely as to why you deserve it.
5. When you have power, use it to build up people, not to constrict them.
6. Do not attempt to live without vanity, since this is impossible, but choose the right audience from which to seek admiration.
7. Do not think of yourself as a wholly self-contained unit.
8. Be reliable.
9. Be just.
10. Be good-natured.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

• Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
• Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye?
• Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
• Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
• Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.

M.A.S.H

We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.

In a time of destruction, create something.

90 percent of success is not getting distracted.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

One of the best secrets of a happy life is the art of extracting comfort and sweetness from every circumstance.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

No one wants a boss, to be a boss, to work under a boss. The people you like working with are the people you respect as individuals.

Hope clouds observation.

A positive mindset won't carry you to victory, but a negative one guarantees defeat.

Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.

What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

The cold water doesn't get warmer if you jump late.