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

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

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