It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

My dear People. My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good Sackville Bagginses that I w

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Why be a man when you can be a success?

When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Wishing without work is like fishing without bait.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.