Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache.