When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and never miss a word.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.