If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

Patience is the art of finding something else to do.

I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?