That’s good. Go on, read some more.

I couldn’t catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don’t know where the book is, and maybe I couldn’t read it if I found it.

I continued with whatever ‘qualified climbers’ I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Actually, we’re just glorified flagpole sitters.

I don’t know much about Americanism, but it’s a damn good word with which to carry an election.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend.

There’s good in everybody. Boost. Don’t knock.

America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.