The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.