"The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''"

"By whom?"

"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks."

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires."

"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."

"Trapped, like a trap in a trap."

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ?- and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."

"There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?"

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

"The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow."

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."