"'9W'Answer to the question: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr. Vagner?"

"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."

"What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?"

"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."

"'If you were my husband, i would feed you poison.' 'If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!"

"War is only a continuation of state policy by other means."

"The eleventh commandment --- Thou shalt not be found out --- is the only one that is virtually impossible to keep these days."

"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric."

"Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)"

"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure."

"Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings."