I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
If the power goes out, business stops. . . whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.
Beaten paths are for beaten men.
And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day!
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.