There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

A lamb among wolves!

We are about the hurried business of living life while missing it in the very process of living it.

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

So all my friends have kids now... which I think is rude.

I'm always writing a new book even when books are being shopped around, and none of my books has been published in the order that they have been written.

Water polo would be much more interesting if they hadn't gotten rid of the horses.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.