I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.