Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.