When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.

At Disneyland, you never go backstage - even when youre in the bathroom.

We often wait for the resources before we make a move.

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!