Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse.

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your friend.

From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.