To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.