No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.