"We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's."

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."

"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."

"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."

"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."

"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something."

"A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey."

"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."

"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away."

"Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse."

"What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something."

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."