Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.