I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.