Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

Writing is the supreme solace.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.