Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.

The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.