It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'