It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.