"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."

"When in doubt, duck."

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."

"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route."

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."

"I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out."

"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."

"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done."

"There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."