[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.

...You are here again, so realistic, just, the golden dawn takes you away in the morning...Be here now, not there, where there is nothingbut starsand emptiness......

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)

Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty

You get the job done or you don't.

Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You.

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. Thats what I will be above and beyond everything else.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.