Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they only print your thumbs.
From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.
Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started.
It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.
I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.
Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.