Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.