"One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed."

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."

"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."

"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win."

"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed."

"If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!"

"Don't spend $2 to dry clean a shirt. Instead, donate it to the Salvation Army. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. The next morning buy it back for seventy- five cents."

"Vows were ever brokers to defiling."

"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown."

"As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."

"The game is afoot."