He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.

We fear what we most desire.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"

The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.