it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

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

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.