The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.