Let's remind ourselves that last year's fresh idea is today's cliche.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know that he is.

It's from Casablanca. I've been waiting all my life to use that line.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Better late than never.

A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.

I paid a visit to my local precinct in Greenwich Village and asked a sergeant to show me some rape statistics. He politely obliged. That month there had been thirty-five rape complaints, an advance of ten over the same month for the previous year.

Plumbing is one of the easier of do-it-yourself activities, requiring only a few simple tools and a willingness to stick your arm into a clogged toilet. In fact, you can solve many home plumbing problems, such as annoying faucet drip, merely by tur

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The only alliance I would make with the Women's Liberation Movement is in bed.

When in doubt, use brute force.

There are people who find it odd to eat four or five Chinese meals in a row; in China, I often remind them, there are a billion or so people who find nothing odd about it.

The most common given name in the world is Mohammad; the most common family name in the world is Chang. Can you imagine the enormous number of people in the world named Mohammad Chang?

Water, taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest r