In politics nothing is contemptible.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

You can't buy happiness

We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.