You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

What are we? Young or new? We must be something.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.