If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!