When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.