"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."

"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth."

"The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination."

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast."

"The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing."

"Maybe I should have screwed up."

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity"