The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.