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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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