Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.