“I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.”

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

There is nothing more precious than laughter.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the paren't of all the others.

„Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”