Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

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

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

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

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

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.