Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.