We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.