In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".

The happier the moment the shorter.

Trump's done nothing but be a great friend of Israel, and yet he's being tagged with anti-Semitism here. It doesn't make any intellectual sense.

The unhappy never want enemies.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.