Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

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.

There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

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?

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.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.