Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow, The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to he better.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

It's never what you say, but how You make it sound sincere.