Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

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.

I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.