A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.