A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The point is that you can't be too greedy.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

put that which was most material in the postscript.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.

The impossible is often the untried.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

I've learned that good byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.

She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early , she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.