A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

If you pray for thy neighbour, sow a seed of love in thy heart.

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

I'm in you, you're in me.

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.