You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.