The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it’s a little closer to being perfect.

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy** some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.