I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.