What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Sometimes we buy things to impress people we may not even know.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.  

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. 

Shall sweet love prosper or high dreams have a place. Amid the tumult of reverberant strife.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls.