Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.