"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled." - Michael Crichton

"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." - Mark Twain

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." - Horace Walpole

"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies." - Dalton Camp

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important." - Eugene McCarthy

"Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen." - Martin Mull

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." - Herman Wouk

"The least of learning is done in the classrooms." - Thomas Merton

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. " - Sir Barnett Cocks

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue." - Greek Proverb

"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes." - Norman Douglas