Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Without ships, we cannot live.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

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