"There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

"The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man."

"If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time?"

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob."

"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity."

"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology."

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law"

"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."

"To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?"

"It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen."