There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.