You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.