Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.