The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Free advice is worth the price.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.