No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one's hunches about somebody one has met.

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.