Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

The Beatles said 'all you need is love,' then they broke up.

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.