“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits …
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.”
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”
“The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.”
“The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
“It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of …
“For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.”
“Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.”
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”
“An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.”
“1. Never tell everything at once.”
“Be neither too remote nor too familiar.”
“Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my …
“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks’ reason for living.”
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. …
“When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.”
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
“It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.”
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
“Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.”
“Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.”
“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
“Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.”
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.”
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
“Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.”
“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, …
“If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport.”
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
“Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights – then all will seem to reverse itself …
“The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor.’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing …
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”
“You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.”
“I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”