A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.'

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.