It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

things never seem as bad as they are.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.