There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.