Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.