"In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

"Never complain. Never explain."

"It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before."

"Security is a process, not a product."

"A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit."

"Cycology -- The science of propelling one's self through the environment to enhance well-being."

"I say 'girl' because I love to annoy people. I love the word 'girl'. 'Gal' is pretty great, too. I don't just want to be called a woman. It sounds like someone with a mustache."

"To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off."

"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing."

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."