In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The great lie of the news media: "I am the public".

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.

If life deals you a lemon, make lemonade.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.

Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

The weather cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.