We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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