Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

The stars incline, but do not impel.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

All my enemies are self-appointed.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.