We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.