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

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

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.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!