"To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine."

"Love is not just an ecstasy, not just an intense feeling. It is a driving force. It is something that carries us through our life of joyful duty."

"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it."

"Effort is not effort until it begins to hurt."

"Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage."

"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile."

"Art is the illusion of spontaneity."

"If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves."

"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."

"I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world."

"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist."

"If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency."