This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.