If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

There's an old adage, " he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

A life has to move or it stagnates.

(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.

It was ... disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: 'UNSURV

Maybe he’ll be different from who he was and always is.

For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny. And then she is gone.

[Not achieving a nuclear test ban] would have to be classed as the greatest disappointment of any administration of any decade, of any time and of any party.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

If you're lucky enough to find a weird - never let them go.