The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.