Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's?

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

You get spoiled on Captain America, where your trailers two blocks long and its got three bedrooms.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.