“His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.”

“Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.”

“Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”

“The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.”

“Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.”

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”