Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Just turn left at Greenland...

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea.