There is more to life than increasing its speed.

He thought of Musashi, the Sword Saint, standing in his garden more than three hundred years ago. "What is the 'Body of a rock'?" he was asked. In answer, Musashi summoned a pupil of his and bid him kill himself by slashing his abdomen with a knife.

To lead people, you must follow behind.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

If you are shooting under 80 you are neglecting your business; over 80 you are neglecting your golf.

If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

[Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Hotels are tired of getting ripped off. I checked into a hotel and they had towels from my house.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make Gods.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for nothing. I gave them nothing for something.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.

Genius is pain.

A word to the wise is enough.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

The most delightful day after the one on which you buy a cottage in the country is the one on which you resell it.

... a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-Class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker and a fly-by-night. These virtues awakened Confidence and enabled you to handle Bigger Propositions.

Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way of survival of the fittest.

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

"The jig's up, Elman." "Which jig?"

I understand why you're confused. You're thinking too much.

There is a secret person undamaged within every individual.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.

"MOKE DAT YIGARETTE"

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.

Do not seek death; death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.]

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

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish.