The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.