Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

I do the best with what exists.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.