Quotes from John Gunther

God is what's good in me.

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

Intellectually, he is like interstellar space - a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Maybe the next world will be a pleasanter place than this

Talkativeness and charm are both, as is well-known, characteristics somewhat feminine; and they often add up to guile. Certainly there was a strong streak of the female in Roosevelt, though this is not to disparage his essential masculinity. Confidence in his own charm led him into occasional perilous adventures—almost as a woman may be persuaded with a long series of glittering successes behind her, to think she is irresistible forever and can win anybody's scalp.

He had not recognized me, and thought I was some master he did not know.

about one of his schools he said, I would make the following criticisms. First, too much attention to marks. Second, too much religion. Third, no time for me to develop my own interests. Fourth, group discipline may be imposed unfairly.