Never buy from a rich salesman.

The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers, where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with sledgehammers. With their devices thus permanent

A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him what he meant.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending t

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.

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

The superfluous is very necessary.

Look before you leap.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.