"The only time some fellows are ever seen with their wives is after they've been indicted."

"Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you."

"A good listener is usually thinking about something else."

"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."

"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

"One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before."

"Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

"A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain."

"When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you."

"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth."

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."