Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

A large movement covers a small movement

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

If you can tell the world who you are and what you believe without breaking stride or hesitating, you are happy with yourself.

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.