Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become.

The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

If there's three boxes that say 'Single', 'In a Relationship, ' and the third one says 'Getting Money', I'd check the third one.

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.