"They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'"

"The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success."

"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."

"Favorite color: I hate colors."

"Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate."

"Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy."

"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."

"Confound those who have said our remarks before us."

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."

"If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?"