As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.