“If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.”

“One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.”

“Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.”

“The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.”

“Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.”

“People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.”

“Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.”

“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.”

“Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”