At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.