I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide.

Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."