O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.