Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.

Of two evils, choose the more interesting.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be producing every minute of every day.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.