How do you stop those who will stop at nothing?

Have patience. You will eventually lose sight of what you truly deserve if you get too fixed on grabbing any stuff quickly. Things that last don't grow easy.

…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

A picture is poem without words.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

The most important qualification is that the person I pick be ready to become president if something were to happen.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.