A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.