Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Looking back, may I be filled with gratitude; Looking forward, may I be filled with hope; Looking upward, may I be aware of strength; Looking inward, may I find peace.......

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

These violent delights have violent ends.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

The poppies hung Dew-dabbed on their stalks.

The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.

All limits are self imposed.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless the pretender; But who the pretender is, or who is King-- God bless us all--that's quite another thing.

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine."

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.