It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions, which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light, points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Come now. let us reason together.

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.