Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.