You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

... Our second completely true news item was sent to me by Mr. H. Boyce Connell Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., where he is involved in a law firm. One thing I like about the South is, folks there care about tradition. If somebody gets handed a name like "H.

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

If a jury in a criminal trial stays out for more than twenty-four hours, it is certain to vote acquittal, save in those instances where it votes guilty.

There is only one word for aid that is genuinely without strings, and that word is blackmail.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the men are strong, the women are pretty, and the children are above-average.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.

I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men