"It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye; Then it's just fun you can't see."

"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed a good idea at the time.'"

"I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American."

"Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much."

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb."

"Men generally believe what they wish."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics."

"I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

"Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision."

"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order."