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I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

 Werner von Braun, in  Success and Failure

Too much of a good thing is just that.

 Brian J. Dent, in  Vice and Virtue

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

 Albert Einstein, in  Science and Religion

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

 Robert Frost, in  Success and Failure and  Work and Recreation

Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

 Luther Burbank, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in  Vice and Virtue and  Work and Recreation

I live for books.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Art and Literature and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

 Albert Einstein, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

 Oscar Levant, in  Happiness and Misery

Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

 Derrick Harge, in  Love and Hate and  Men and Women

Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.

 Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in  Vice and Virtue

We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don't.

 Frank A. Clark, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I hate quotations.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

 Frank Herbert, Dune, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

 Robert F. Kennedy, in  Success and Failure

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

 John F. Kennedy, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Vice and Virtue

You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

 Al Capone, in  War and Peace

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

 Winston Churchill, in  Law and Politics

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

 Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in  Work and Recreation

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

 Samuel Johnson, in  Art and Literature