The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.