The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.