Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

It feels good to show some courage.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.