Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Use your body language and posture to project confidence. Shift your physiology into a more powerful pose or position and your mindset will follow.

Life says: " Write down your experiences in a notebook, not on a blackboard. Don't start with a clean slate, but with a new page, so you can look back.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

It may be that [Erwin Rommel] believed it to be possible to convince [Adolf] Hitler to go away and to end the war, but Hitler never dreamed of doing something like that.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

...an old man is twice a child.