Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?