The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.