"The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance."

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."

"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."

"I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

"All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me."