Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.