I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.