To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.