The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.