A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Every man's memory is his private literature.