Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

I can't wait for the day I learn to live in the now!

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

In the 1970's and in early 1980's, a startling discovery was made that almost every problem contains an element of solutions.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

This is an issue that women are not interested in debating.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.