I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.