Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

People rarely do what they don't want to.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.