If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

If you want divine justice, die.

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life.

Human resources are human first, and resources second.

I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the morning. A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for the train to come in, he said to me: "Excuse me, Mr. Cooke, I don't want to invade your privacy, but I h

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

To say you got a vote of confidence would be to say you needed a vote of confidence.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.