The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.