Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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

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