The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.