It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.