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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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I have such poor vision I can date anybody.

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I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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