"We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood."

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."

"The shortest route to getting things done is just do it."

"Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself."

"I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against."

"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."

"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer."

"The average person thinks he isn't."

"Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?"

"Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!"

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"