Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

Those who understand nature walk with God.

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.