What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.

Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

What this country needs is a really good 5-cent cigar

I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.

To travel is to live.

Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free!

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

Polka will never die.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.

You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...