Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?