I never apologize!

Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.

But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze; While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

When we learn all the answers, they change the questions.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.