Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.