The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

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.

Your first teacher is your mother

I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.

It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

I was different from most young conductors today.

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.