XI: If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off. XII: I

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat.

Flame on!

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.

What we see depends on mainly what we look for.

The major sin is the sin of being born.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them.

You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home.

The great secret in life ... [is] not to open your letters for a fortnight. At the expiration of that period you will find that nearly all of them have answered themselves.

WE'RE GOING TO THROW THE MX AWAY AFTER WE BUILD IT. The MX is really [Don't tell anybody!] just a "bargaining chip" in the nuclear-arms- reduction talks with the Russians. See, we have a problem with the Russians. They look at our leaders and they

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.