I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

In the long run we are all dead.

If men are not afraid to die, it is of no avail to threaten them with death. If men live in constant fear of dying, And if breaking the law means a man will be killed, Who will dare to break the law? There is always an official executioner. If

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

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Objectivity is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

...He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

To lead people, you must follow behind.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.

"No job too big; no fee too big!"

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

The `loner' may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

What we need in this country, instead of Daylight Savings Time, which nobody really understands anyway, is a new concept called Weekday Morning Time, whereby at 7 a.m. every weekday we go into a space-launch-style "hold" for two to three hours, durin

"Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest."

Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

Competitive fury is not always anger. It is the true missionary's courage and zeal in facing the possibility that one's best may not be enough.

I just got off the phone with Sonny Barger [President of the Hell's Angels]. He wants me to appear as a character witness for him at his murder trial and said he'd be glad to appear as a character witness on my behalf if I ever needed one. Needless

Small is beautiful.

To have died once is enough.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.

The more the merrier.

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

There is no proverb that is not true.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

It was a female that drove me to drink and I didn't even have the kindness to thank her.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Where there is much light there is also much shadow.

Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

A snake lurks in the grass.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.

Think sideways!

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong. Our offense consists in doubting it.