Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

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.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.