Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.