It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Drop dead-but first get permit

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.

Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.