No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.