Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Live to learn and you'll learn to live.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

History as the slaughter-bench

Moonlight slipped in through the lace curtains, slicing everything with its sliver cracks. That's how I felt right now - cold and cracked and hollow and empty.

I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.