The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Each soul is potentially divine.
Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.