When a fissure off the California coast started pumping and dumping oil on the nearby towns and beaches, everybody started dumping on Union Oil. Matters weren't helped one iota by a manufactured quotation attributed to Union's president, Fred Hartley, alleging his amazement at the publicity for the loss of a few birds.... Fred Hartley never said what the press reported, as the transcript and the Senate committee members definitely established. But I don't suppose the truth will ever catch up with the more colorful falsehood.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.