Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.