There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.