It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.