Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his own country;--seldom since that day Has Spain had heroes.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilisation.

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colours.But they all have to learn to live in the same box.

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

For people who like peace and quiet: a phone less cord.

Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. - Borsi, A Soldier's Confidences with God.

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing A tone Of some world far from ours, Where music and moonlight and feeling Are one.