This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won’t stand the same from another man?

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.

A few years ago, maybe it was more strange to be outside of the centers of fashion. Now, with the Internet and traveling that you can do, I think I'm more central than some people in Paris.

I'm more and more in control of my own vibration.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep.

Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?