That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps