The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

Most problems are caused by solutions.