I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.