She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing no harm," I ought to be testing myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.