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

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

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

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.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.