what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.