In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.