Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

God is what's good in me.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.