Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: donÂ’t write about Man, write about 'a' man.

I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.

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.

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

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

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

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

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.