... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.