Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.