"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

"We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat."

"As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject."

"On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks."

"The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is."

"Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people."

"Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."

"Lactomangulation, n.: Manhandling the 'open here' spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the 'illegal' side."

"Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed."