If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The best you can offer is to be for God, the good you can do is to help fellow human beings and the result of this can be to greatness with sincerity together with integrity.

Spending time being can be just as, if not more, fulfilling as spending time doing.

I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

The only critic is a full house.