Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.