If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

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

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.