In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.