Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.