Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.