A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.