Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.