It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.