There are books of which the bags and covers are by far the best parts.

Tell the children the truth.

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. 

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.