Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.