If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Practices were tough.

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

Malice is always authentic and sincere.

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?