Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.