Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

Remember that I too am mortal.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.