Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.