None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

You don't have to blow out the other person's light to let your own shine.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.