There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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.

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.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.