"Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!"

"Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world."

"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do."

"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."

"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness."

"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now."

"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy"

"Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."

"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."

"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath."