We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

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

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

To be social is to be forgiving.