A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.