Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.