His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum- stances being what they

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to build railroads across a continent? In independent thought about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it takes a coinci

Briefly stated, the findings are that when presented with an array of data or a sequence of events in which they are instructed to discover an underlying order, subjects show strong tendencies to perceive order and causality in random arrays, to perc

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE! AWAKE!

What a bonanza! An unknown beginner to be directed by Lubitsch, in a script by Wilder and Brackett, and to play with Paramount's two superstars, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert, and to be beaten up by both of them!

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.

Man proposes, God disposes.

I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.

You can't play your friends like marks, kid.

My brain is my second favorite organ.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.

"That boy's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver"

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

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.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.