As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.