It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

Don't claim you're sincere, just be it.

Sometimes you like to keep things bottled up, but that is not the best policy.

Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

When your arms are bigger than your head, something is wrong.