My head rang like a gong.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.