"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr."

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

"I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like."

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."

"If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week."

"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President?'"

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."

"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love."