The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.