"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
"Advertising is legalized lying."
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."
"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
"Our true nationality is mankind."
"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."
"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
"The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships."
"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."
"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought."
"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
"Cynicism is humor in ill health."
