I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.