Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.