Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

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.

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

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.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.