When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

I'm a fake intellectual.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

I can't get it wrong.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.