“Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.”

“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant”

“There is nobody as irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ”

“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

“A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.”

“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”

“Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination": thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps to explain why the world, only a few years after sighing with relief at its delivery from the ogre, began to worship him as the greatest man of modern times. Napoleon had barely left the scene when the fifteen years that he had carved out of world history to create his glory seemed scarcely believable. Only the scars of the war veterans and the empty places in the widows' beds seemed to attest to the reality of those years, and time soon eliminated even these silent witnesses. What remained, in retrospect and in the imagination, was legend and symbol.”