A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

Home is where you hang your architect.