Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.