Always cut the cards...and smile when you lose.

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.