The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

The word good has many meanings.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.