When I feel the heat, I see the light.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.