Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
History is more or less bunk.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Never eat more than you can lift.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.