Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.